Gibber-gabber
Flash memory card trading (and other computer parts?)…a visitor has an idea.
beingzoe 2009-01-08 18:02:08 UTC

Trader Dan received an email today sharing how he and other folks have been trading memory cards and inquired about involving that idea here in the community. Well Trader Dan forwarded that email on to me (he’s busy traveling the world and not so good with the computer/site questions anyway :)

The more I thought about it, I can’t believe we didn’t think of it sooner. It is the most obvious part of a trading post, that is trading “things” between folks. Heck, the way the economy is, it could be a vital part of some of us “getting by” until our stock portfolios are worth anything again :)

At any rate, if you are interested in trading memory cards, computer parts, or any item in any community, go ahead and post it. I will hopefully be discussing the idea more with our friendly visitor with the great idea and we’ll get a prototype down for a new “trading post” post to the community blogs.

For now, if you have something to sell or trade, don’t hesitate to post to any relevant community and topic. We are probably going to eliminate the Shameless Promotions topic from all the communities and create a more robust set of topics (and hopefully sub-topics someday) with improved filtering and rating of posts so that all types of posts can be mixed together in a common set of topics per community, while allowing folks to easily hide various post types they are not interested in.

If you have any other thoughts or suggestions, please feel to respond to this post, or post a new discussion in the Potluck Community CoTradeCo news, comments, and requests

Take care and thank you all for visiting.

Memory Card picture borrowed from an article at GizmoWatch Korean scientists predicting breakthrough 100 GB flash memory cards